Citing a spike in heroin use in the county over the past two years, Nassau County Executive Thomas Suozzi called for the formation of a new task force to share prevention information among a variety of agencies, especially related to keeping people from becoming first-time users (NEWSDAY).
Nassau County Executive Tom Suozzi announced the departures of 500 County employees as part of a negotiated labor deal. The workforce reduction plan, combined with other cost-cutting moves will help close a nearly $130 million budget shortfall this year (NEWSDAY).
Late-night comics can afford to laugh at the mess in Albany. But for New York's local governments, it's no joke: At stake are thousands of jobs, essential services, property-tax reform and our kids' education (NEW YORK POST).
A proposed $4 billion development on 150 acres in the heart of Nassau County is being promoted as a new vision of suburbia, minus the bad stuff. Thomas R. Suozzi, the Nassau County executive, who touts the Lighthouse as the centerpiece of his vision of a smart-growth, new suburbia, always begins his sales pitch for the project and the idea behind it by saying it’s not a threat to the Long Island of myth and fable (NY TIMES).
Nassau County Executive Tom Suozzi was in Albany today to meet with legislative leaders and implore them to get together and pass legislation key to local governments or risk "devastating" consequences (NY DAILYNEWS).
County Executive Tom Suozzi hosted a meeting of all principals involved in the Lighthouse Project to help smooth over tensions and move the development forward. Emerging from the meeting, the officials and developers presented a preliminary time table for approval (NEWSDAY).
In keeping with the spirit of D-Day, Nassau County Executive Tom Suozzi, along with several veterans hired through the Warriors to Work program, is urging business owners to secure jobs for unemployed veterans (Long Island Press).
Voters statewide may have a pleasant surprise on May 19 when they go to the polls to vote on their local school budgets: On average, taxes have risen less than 2 percent. Tom Suozzi, Chairman of the New York State Commission on Property Tax Relief commended school districts for staying under the 4% cap that his commission has proposed (ALBANY TIMES UNION).
In conjunction with Earth Day, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) presented Environmental Quality Awards to representatives from 26 projects across New York State for their efforts to protect the environment. County Executive Tom Suozzi was honored for his Green Levittown initiative.
Amid the worst economic climate in 80 years, Moody's has preserved Nassau's stable bond rating due to the quick and decisive fiscal management by County Executive Tom Suozzi and the Nassau Legislature (NEWSDAY).
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